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Insane Asylums

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Coquitlam, British Columbia

Riverview Hospital

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

Traverse City, Michigan

Traverse City State Hospital

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

The streets of Geel, Belgium.

Geel, Belgium

A pilgrimage site where people ask Saint Dymphna to watch over those who are not of sound mind.

Permanently Closed

Only one corner of the massive, four winged structure.

Weyburn, Saskatchewan

Weyburn Mental Hospital

This notorious Canadian mental institution was home to some of the first LSD experiments and origin of the word "psychedelic."

St. Joseph, Missouri

Glore Psychiatric Museum

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

Leiden, Netherlands

Museum Boerhaave

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

Dr. Guislain Museum

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.